Columnist Mark Janes and his friend, the late Dr. Garo Gholdoian, bonded over their shared love of wine. Gholdoian especially loved the wines of Chablis, in the Burgundy region of France.

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Mark Janes
For the Reno Gazette-Journal

Nothing I had been reading in the wine world had really been inspiring me. I'd dug through various articles, and while there were plenty of interesting things going on in the wine world, I wasn't inspired to write about any of them. I'd started and stopped three or four columns. Maybe I'll come back to them with a fresh mind, I told myself, in this new year.

As I experienced writer's block, if you want to call it that, my thoughts turned to the events of last Dec. 17 in Reno. I was working at Renown that day and was getting ready to leave the hospital around 2:30 p.m. to go to another hospital when three ...